Wilton
The verdict
“Wilton” is uncommon French (frequency #59,021 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,021
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-wilton · Wilton · French
Wilton · rank #59,021 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,021
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH Waremme
Nearest frequency peer: Waremme (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Wilton”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- vrt
vrt
40,984 corpus weight
- Waremme
Waremme
40,981 corpus weight
- Wilton
Wilton
40,980 corpus weight
- wit
wit
40,979 corpus weight
- xc
xc
40,978 corpus weight
- Zalando
Zalando
40,976 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Wilton” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Wilton |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #59,021 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “Wilton” se place dans la fréquence du français
Rare enough to double-check
Wilton is uncommon French at frequency #59,021 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom masculin.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Wilton, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Wilton, spelled W-I-L-T-O-N.
Definition
- 1Prénom masculin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Wilton appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Wilton Sampaio s’est vu offrir une “lap dance” par Kylian Mbappé contre des décisions favorables pour la France.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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